[ansible 2.2.0] Blocks and When condiftion

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Hello,

Since ansible 2.2.0 when using a when condition for a block, inner when are no more evaluated and are executed.

Ex:

  • blocks:

  • include xxx.yml
    when: condition1

  • include: yyy.yml
    when: condition2

when: block_condition

It is fine with ansible 2.1.0

2

Since ansible 2.2.0 when using a when condition for a block, inner
when are no more evaluated and are executed.

Hmm, I can't reproduce this. In your example playbook, you say "blocks"
rather than "block", but that gives an immediate syntax error.

Here's how I tried to reproduce it. foo.yml:

  - hosts: localhost
    tasks:
      - block:
          - include: alpha.yml
            when: checkpoint_alpha is defined
          - include: bravo.yml
            when: checkpoint_bravo is defined
        when: checkpoints is defined

alpha.yml:

  - debug: msg="checkpoint alpha"

bravo.yml:

  - debug: msg="checkpoint bravo"

If I run foo.yml with:

  (no extra-vars)
  --extra-vars "checkpoint_alpha=1"
  --extra-vars "checkpoint_alpha=1 checkpoints=1"
  --extra-vars "checkpoint_alpha=1 checkpoint_bravo=1 checkpoints=1"

The first two don't print any debug messages; the third prints the alpha
debug message but not the bravo on; the fourth prints both debug messages.
Same behavior in 2.1.1.0-1 and 2.2.0.0-1.

                                      -Josh (jbs@care.com)

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3

There are a few issues open on this on Github, currently digging into it to figure out why. It appears to be a more long-standing bug than 2.2, as forcing includes to be dynamic in 2.1 shows the same bug in most cases.